Re: Help installing patch

Ambrose Li [EDP] wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 04:32:07AM +0000, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> >
> > Note: You shouldn't get any output from the patch program. If you do
> > then the patch file is most likely not correcly downloaded.
>
> Uh, for sufficiently new versions of the patch program, yes; for
> sufficiently old versions of patch some output is always generated.

sufficiently old versions or many UNIX vendor versions of patch wont
even apply patches to more than one file at a time.

Supported patch version is GNU patch 2.5. In the example the note
belongs to it was called with the -s option to supress any commentary
(non-error messages).

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Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker